During the 1970s exploitation films flourished, and every imaginable taste of poor quality was addressed. The? Women in Prison?
(WIP) genre of women being imprisoned characters involved in some sordid prison, where they were abused by either prison guards or prisoners. Most often these prisons are located either in Asia or the Philippines and breaks as a result of prison inmates roaming the jungles / mountains.
Directed by Eddie Romero and co-written with Jonathan Demme (who directed the WIP? Classic? Caged Heat), this is a worthy, if somewhat confusing, interpretation of the genre. Two prisoners, one black, Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) and one white, Karen Brent (Margaret Markov) are at the mercy of prison guards lesbian hard to love.
However, Brent? S association with a group of groundbreaking results in the couple being transferred to another prison, but in the path of his car is ambushed by friends of Brent. While in the race are Ernesto gangster pursued by a bounty hunter cowboy Ruben (Sid Haig) and revolutionaries mentioned above, all of which generate different sub-plots. These various activities, then meet for a bloody showdown in
the docks where all participants are required to confrontation.
This is neither the best or the worst of films WIP 1970 and is similar to other films of Philippine jail as The Big Bird Cage (also a vehicle Grier). The labyrinthine structure means that two thirds of the film actually takes place outside the prison and the two main ones are almost forgotten in the central section.
Despite this Grier and Markov are obvious points of the film, and to overcome the initial animosity in order to survive. Nudity is mainly confined to anonymous Asian women who populate the background and the action is choppy. Sid Haig, once again mixing things up with his flamboyant character and local supporting cast are passable.
Because much of the entertainment that you will leave this film will depend entirely on how you view 70 films of series B. Most certainly be confounded by low production values, but the fans certainly get a kick out of this.
Sound and picture quality are good, but there is little in the way of extras (no subtitles either). 3, 5.